William Rhodes - Professor

William T. Rhodes joined the faculty of the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1971, where he is currently Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and serves as Director of the Georgia Tech Center for Optical Science and Engineering and as liaison to the Georgia Tech Research Institute. From August 1990 through December 1991 he was Denver Business Challenge Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Program Manager for Optical Signal Processing in the university's NSF-supported Optoelectronic Computing Systems Center. In 1976 he was a Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Erlangen-Nuernberg in Germany. He received the B.S. in physics (1966) and the M.S. (1968) and Ph.D. (1971) in electrical engineering from Stanford University, where he was a recipient of a NASA Traineeship in Lasers and Optics. His research interests are in the areas of image formation, optical signal processing, and optical computing, and he teaches in the areas of modern optics, communications, and signal processing.

Dr. Rhodes is a coauthor of the textbook Introduction to Lasers and Their Applications (Academic Press, 1977), and is writing a textbook on Fourier Optics and Optical Signal Processing. He has served on the editorial boards of Optica Acta, Optical Engineering, Optics Letters, and Journal of the Optical Society of America, and served as editor-in-chief of Applied Optics for the period 1987-1993. He has chaired the Optical Society of America's Technical Group on Information Processing and Holography and the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Interest Group on Optical Computing. He has also served as a Director of the Optical Society of America (OSA) and as a Governor of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE). He is a Fellow of both the OSA and of the SPIE.